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Erin A. Palm

Biography

Erin Palm loved participating in the Quest summer educational program so much in high school, she continued at the Quest Scholars Program when she enrolled in Stanford. Quest, she says, gave her "a chance to apply altruistic principles," which led her to medicine.

While at Stanford, where she earned a perfect GPA, Erin began volunteering in local emergency rooms through a program for pre-med students called SCOPE, then became certified as a medical Spanish interpreter to improve communications with Hispanic patients. She paved the way for others to follow her example by helping to organize a Spanish-immersion program for pre-med students, which created avenues for interns to train in Mexico. Eventually, she became co-director of SCOPE and helped make it the largest pre-med group in the California Bay area. At Stanford and on internships with the Environmental Protection Agency, she also explored links between asthma and pollution.

Erin hopes in her medical career to pursue "solutions that combine public and environmental health, as well as education, with hospital-based medicine." She wants to offer "vision from a clinical perspective - understanding of the needs and treatment approaches for individual patients, as well as the integrated, big-picture perspective of a leader in business management."

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